Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > On Tue, 17 February 2015, at 6:26 pm, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: >> >> The log file seem to be some sort of binary that doesn't display too >> well in less, and there doesn't seem to be any way to read them. > > I believe this may be bug 406623. > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406623
That's almost three years old and should apparently be fixed? > You can establish whether you're affected by 406623 simply by deleting > the character(s) (renaming the log file would probably work, too) and > rebooting the system. My experience was that the text logfile is > "turned to binary" on reboot - the binary characters were logged as > part of the kernel's startup messages. This was repeatable and > predictable. Maybe I'll try it tomorrow --- it's on a server at work which I plan to reboot anyway. -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.
